The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-01-25
THE DgMoRALIzHD POSTAL SERVICE.
The Atlanta Constitution says:

The Atlanta Constitution says:
$50 far as Georgia is concerned. it cannot
be denied that the mail facilities were better
and more expeditions, and the entire postal
system more perfect, during the Republican
administration than at the present time under
Democratic rule. There is one explanation.
Mr.. Blaine, in his recent speech in Pennsyl-
vania. said that Mr.. Villas the Postmaster
general had retained 90 per cent. of Re-
publicans in office in this department. This
is probably true, and these Republicans are
making it count by giving inefficient service
to injure the Democratic party. The Consti
tuition has received more complaints about the
irregularity of the mails in Southern Georgia
since the 1st of January than it received in
any twelve months before MIR. Villas took
charge of this department"
The Louisville Courier Journal copies this,
says it is 'the same in Kentucky and every
where else, and joins in the abuse of the
Postmaster general for not making a clean
sweep of the Republicans in the postal serv
ice 1t is not our business to defend the Post
master general from attacks Of his political
friends, but such utterly senseless twaddle as
this cannot be allowed to pass unchallenged.
There never was more palpably false and alb
surd idea than that Che Republicans still re-
tanned in the postal service are responsible for
its generalization. The pretense that they
are giving inefficient service to iniure the
Democratic party is the acme of nonsense
If they wanted to injure the Democratic par
| ty and the postal service they could do it most
effectually by resigning in body. The fact
| is they want to hold their places With near
| y all Of them it is question of bread and
butter, and men do not generally throw away
| support for their families on so silly motive
as that suggested in this case. The Repub-
lican postal clerks who are still retained in the
| service know their tenure is insecure, and they
are working harder than they ever did before
| to give satisfaction, doing more work than
ever before and doing it as we'll as they know
how. Their work has been enormously in
creased during the administration by the
large number Of new, unframed and
inefficient men appointed, many OF
them having broken down and been forced
| ~ ASSiSi Oy tAo iouO luuS Pu'
| upon them. The sole cause of the democrat
ization of the postal service is the removal OF
competent, experienced men, and the APP
! pointment of inexperienced and incompetent
ones. If all the Republicans now in the
service Were removed and their places filled
with new men, the decentralization of the serv
| ice would be ten times as great as it ia. Post
master general Villas knows this. He is g
Democrat but no fool. He is very bright
| business man, with business reputation al
stake, and he would wreck it, and perhaps
the administration also. by making clear
sweep of Republicans in the postal service
He has gone and is going az fast and far ir
this direction as he dares GO and much too
fast for the good of the service. The Atlantis
| Constitution and the Courier-Journal have
had some experience with a postal service
composed entirely and exclusively Of Demo
Gratis This was during the war. when Mr.
Reagan was Postmaster general for the Con
federacy. Was the service any better then